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In Eastern Syria, Remnants of a Crumbling IS 'Caliphate'
[AnNahar] "The caliphate is here to stay": in the last town it controlled in Syria, the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 group is little more than a slogan on a broken storefront and a dark memory.

Hajin has been largely leveled but reminders of jihadist rule remain on those walls that still stand amid the mounds of rubble and mangled construction iron rods.
Posted by: trailing wife 2019-02-07
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=533817